Railway-tie.



H. J. BOWLING.

RAILWAY TIE.

MPLIGATID! run In. 15, 190:.

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

1 v dilemma MURT J. DOWLING, OI STEWARTS'J'ILLE. L'EW JERSEY.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 16. 1910.

Application filed November 35, 1909. Serial Np. 523,179.

To "/1 whom it may concern.

tie it human that l. .\lt'n'r J. Dowuxu. a citizen of the liuitedStates, residing at Stewartnille, in the county of 'arren and State ofNew Jersey. have-invented a new and useful liililWihV-ddt'. of which thefolconstruction and combinations of parts hereina t't er more fullydescribed and pointed out in the claim.

in the accompanying drawings the pre-' ferred shown.

in said drawings. Figure l i a pet-spew tive view of a portion of a tieembodying the present improvement. the rail being shown se ured inposition upon the end portion thereof. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one endportion of a tie. the rail fastening devices being removed. Fig. 3 is atransverse section through the tie and showing. in elevation, one set ofbolts used in (OllHtCliUIl with the fastening devices. Fig. 4 is acentral vertical transverse section through the tie. Fig. is a detailview of one of the securing bolts. Fig. (3 is a perspective view of amodified form of rail chair.

ei'erriug to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates anI-beatn embedded within a concrete body 2 which preferably increases inwidth toward the bottom thereof, the tip face of the beam being flushwith the corresponding face of the body and the longitudinal corners ofsaid body being preferably cut-away or beveled as shown at. 3.()ppositely dis )OSCd aline ing transversely extending slots 4 areformed within the to of the beam 1 adjacent each end of the tie, theseslots registering with corgesponding grooves 5 formed within theconcrete body thereunder, the grooves however being of greater widththan the slots. Diagonally disposed slots 6 are t'ornn-d within the topportion of the I- beam at points between the slots 4 and the form of theinvention has been adjoining ends of the tie, these slots 6 beingdisposed above corresponding grooves 7 formed in the concrete body andwhich are of greater width than the shits 6. The arrangement f slots hasbeen clearly indicated in Fig. 2.

depression 8 is formed in each side of the tie body 2 at the centerthereof and aslot or incision 9 extends into the tie bod at its center.said slot projecting into the sides and bottom of said body and close tothe beam 1 there being preferably a thin shell 5 of concreteconstituting the inner walls of the slot and serving to protect theadjoining portions of the I-beani from the action of moisture and air.

The rail fastening means used in connection nith this tie consists of abase plate or chair to seated on a cushion It) of a suitable fibrousmaterial and having a longitudinally extending tlange 11 so shaped as toextend over and firmly engage one of the base flanges of a rail A.Openings 12 are formed in this plate near each end thereof, one set ofopenings being designed to receive lts t earl! of whi h has alongitudinally extending rib l-l adjacent the head 15 thereof. one endof the said bolt being threaded to receive a clamping nut 16 as shown inFig. 5. The head 15 of the bolt is insertible into the groove i underone of the slots 6 and the shank and rib of the bolt are disposed torest within the slot (5, the rib serving to hold the bolt againstrotation. The threaded portion of the bolt extends through the baseplate and a nut 16 serves to clamp said piate upon the top of the tie.One of these bolts is insertiblc into each of the gnomes T and 5. thoseoi the bolts which proje t through the slots 4 being designed not onlyto extend through the base plate It) but also to extend through aholding plate 17 which is designed to rest upon the base plate and whichhas a flange 18 so shaped and lo -ated as to extend over and firmlyengage one of the base flanges of the rail A.

From the foregoing description, when read in connection with theaccompanying drawings. it is believed that the manner of securing-railsto the tie will be clearly understood.

The base plates 10 are placed upon the tie bod after the bolts 13 havebeen slid'into the grooves 5 and 7 and the slots 4 and 6 and the saidbolts are extended through the liase plate, two of them being securedthereto by means of nuts so as to clamp the plates upon the tie whilethe other two are extended through the holding plate 17 and thensecured. The flanges of the rail A will thus be tightly held by theflanges 11 and 18 of the two plates as shown in F 2g. 1. When the tie isplaced within the. roadbed it is i reveuted from creeping longitudinallyhecause portions of the material constituting the roadbed project intothe recesses 8. Moreover in iew of the fact that the slots 9 areextended into the middle portion of the tie body, said ti is capable ofbeing flexed to a certain extent, this flexing bein sufficient to givethe desired resiliency.

t will be seen that the entire tie is very simple and durable inconstruction and that the rail fastening can be readily applied theretoand will securely hold the rails in position.

Vhere a fastener such as herein described is located at a rail joint,the flange 19 on the base plate 520 is ('jpreterably provided with a web21 designe to engage the fish plate,

- fit. trated in Fig. 6. The holding platecan be there usually being anotch in the base portion of the same into which this web may T his formof base plate hasbeen illusprovided with a similar Web.

It is of course .to be understood that various changes may be made inthe construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

What is claimed is A railway tie including a plastic body and a metallicreinforce extending longi tudinally therein and ha ing an exposed upperface, there being,recesses within opposite faces of the body and a. slotextending into the body from said recesses and close to the reinforce.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing

